Deep Sea Fishing in Cancun, 09/28/09

Jeff and the boys went fishing on Monday and my amazing husby caught 3 fish, a big barracuda, a mahi mahi and a horse eyed amber jack. They caught 5 all together!! That night he brought the barracuda and the mahi mahi home and Luis cooked it up and brought it to us with baked potatos and salad. It was so good. They really just catered to us.

Cancun Sunday September 27th

We arrived in Cancun yesterday after flying first class on Delta. We've never had that experience before, it was so awesome! I had two pillows, a blankie and watched two movies I've been waiting to see. Russ, Elena's husband works for Delta so we were lucky enough to fly on buddy passes. :)

We got in at about 2:00 P.M. local time and headed straight to our resort, the Coral Mar on the Lagoon side. I was a little skeptical about this place before we got here, based on the reviews from tripadvisor.com and after we had stayed only in 4 star all inclusive resorts every other time we've been to Mexico. I have to say it is SO wonderful! It's off season here, so our group (Russ, Elena, Jerica, Zack, and Jared) and two other guests are the only ones in this whole resort. There is a small pool, a pool table and Luis who cooks for us in the restaurant.


Our condo has one bedroom with a kitchen, living room and a balcony off the bedroom.

Sunday we all went to the hotel zone. Russ and Jared took off to the sports bar at the Marriott to watch the football games (lame!) and Jeff, Jerica, Elena and I went to get some lunch at Carlos and Charlie's. It was an environment kinda like Joe's Crab Shack. The drinks were HUGE and EXPENSIVE!! They cost more than the damn meal!



After lunch we taxi'd down to the Marriott and met up with the other guys, then went down to the beach.



After that, we decided to head to the Walmart to get some groceries for the week. I noticed that unlike American Walmarts, they do not have frozen meals. You have to make everything from scratch. They had their meat and fish out in the open and you were supposed to just pick up what you wanted and throw it in a bag. It wasn't refrigerated and there were flies landing on it. Jeff and I decided to pass on that stuff. We're definitely not here to get sick or contract some kind of parasite.

Salt Lake County Fair

One of my very favorite events in Salt Lake. We saw all sorts of freaky stuff including a two headed cat and the world's smallest woman, only 29inches tall. Jerica and I felt super bad after paying a dollar to see her, she was real, and on display as a freak show! Sad!

hahahahaha

Southern Utah - Labor Day 2009

For Labor Day weekend, we went down to southern Utah with Russ, Elena and Jerica. Russ and Elena have a sweet little vacation home in hurricane with a swimming pool, hot tub, and best of all (in Elena's dog's mind) the fish pond! Her yellow lab, Nala is a fish FREAK!!

Anyway, on one of the days, we all decided to head to the Virgin River to play. Here are some pics of our fun afternoon!

On our way home, Rocky wasn't feeling too well, and puked 4 times, once every hour. We took him straight to the Vet and paid about $300.00. They don't know what was wrong with him, he got to eat chicken and rice for a week, and Kaia got to reap the benefits too!

New Front Door!

Do you like it? It seriously changes the whole look and feel of our house. We got this put up about a week ago, but still need to have our painter friend stain it. :)

BTW - the ugly a** screen door thingy from the seventies is gone now too!

Random Lovies from the Lanes

old sliding door out, new sliding door in!

I found a semi used sliding glass door on craigslist for FREEEEEE!! It's a white vinyl one. The sliding door that came with the house, was most likely the original from 1974, so needless to say, it was in BAD shape. Jeffrey Lane is so handy! He tore the old door out and put the new one it! It looks amazing!